Reviews from the first edition: 'This handbook deserves a place ... near the writing desk of every lawyer practising in the field of international arbitration' Volker Triebel, Journal of International Arbitration 'This book should find its way to the bookshelves of internationally experienced arbitration lawyers' Christof Siefarth, Dispute Resolution This handbook provides an overview of the global framework of international commercial arbitration, in particular the New York Convention, the UNCITRAL Model Law, and international investment treaties. In addition, it offers comprehensive insight into international arbitration laws of countries covering over 60% of the global economy: Austria, Belgium, Brazil, China, England and Wales, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, the Netherlands, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the US. The new edition includes numerous references to recent case law, material and legislative reform as well as topical developments in areas such as arbitrators' jurisdiction, the conduct of arbitral proceedings and the judicial control of arbitral awards.

This book explores the transnational legal infrastructure for dispute resolution in transnational securities transactions. It discusses the role of law and dispute resolution in securities transactions, the types of disputes arising from them, and the institutional and legal aspects of dispute resolution, both generally and regarding aggregate litigation. It illustrates different dispute resolution systems and aggregate litigation methods, and examines the legal issues of dispute resolution arising from transnational securities transactions. In addition, the book proposes two systems of dispute resolution for transnational securities transactions depending on the type of dispute: collective redress through arbitration and a network of alternative dispute resolution systems.

You want to be a mediator, but how do you get started? How do you build your business? How do you make money from being a full-time mediator? Setting Up in Business as a Mediator provides you with the answers to these questions. Whether new to mediation and wanting to start a business as a full-time mediator, or an experienced mediator wanting to develop and grow an existing business, Setting Up in Business as a Mediator has hands-on advice for every stage of a mediator's career and is full of essential information on how mediators can get started in business and grow their existing practice. Restructured, revised and fully updated the new 2nd edition shows: - How to become accredited - How to find a market - The secrets of a good profile - Hints for great blogging - How to set up a website - The best times to tweet - What not to post on LinkedIn and Facebook - How to overcome objections and rejection Packed with helpful tips and guidance, checklists, self-audits, templates, scripts and real life examples, this book aims to get mediators thinking, prompting answers to the following questions, and more: - Why are they doing mediation? - How many mediations a year do they want to be doing in three years' time? - How much money, time and effort do they need to invest to get there? - What do they need to charge? - Why would they choose themselves as a mediator?

In Jamaica, the Caribbean and internationally, the process of arbitration as an alternative to court action in settling disputes is no longer the subject of an esoteric debate, but increasingly is becoming a standard requirement in both government and private-sector contracts. In the process of numerous and varied activities in this field, a great deal of experience and knowledge has been acquired by the author. Over the years, many of his colleagues, mainly in the legal profession, have suggested that if not recorded, this knowledge will be lost. It is in response to those requests that this book has been written. The volume is annotated with practical solutions, not often found in most textbooks on this subject, to frequently asked questions of the author over the years concerning general practice and management of the process of arbitrations.

This book examines how regulatory and liability mechanisms have impacted upon product safety decisions in the pharmaceutical and medical devices sectors in Europe, the USA and beyond since the 1950s. Thirty-five case studies illustrate the interplay between the regulatory regimes and litigation. Observations from medical practice have been the overwhelming means of identifying post-marketing safety issues. Drug and device safety decisions have increasingly been taken by public regulators and companies within the framework of the comprehensive regulatory structure that has developed since the 1960s. In general, product liability cases have not identified or defined safety issues, and function merely as compensation mechanisms. This is unsurprising as the thresholds for these two systems differ considerably; regulatory action can be triggered by the possibility that a product might be harmful, whereas establishing liability in litigation requires proving that the product was actually harmful. As litigation normally post-dates regulatory implementation, the 'private enforcement' of public law has generally not occurred in these sectors. This has profound implications for the design of sectoral regulatory and liability regimes, including associated features such as extended liability law, class actions and contingency fees. This book forms a major contribution to the academic debate on the comparative utility of regulatory and liability systems, on public versus private enforcement, and on mechanisms of behaviour control.

This edited volume aims at examining China's role in the field of international governance and the rule of law under the Belt and Road Initiative from a holistic manner. It seeks alternative analytical frameworks that not only take into account legal ideologies and legal ideals, but also local demand and socio-political circumstances, to explain and understand China's legal interactions with countries along the Road, so that more useful insights can be produced in predicting and analysing China's as well as other emerging Asian countries' legal future. Authors from Germany, Korea, Singapore, Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong have contributed to this edited volume, which produces academic dialogues and conducts intellectual exchanges in specific sub-themes.

What do I do now? Every mediator asks themselves this. Answering 50 common ethical, practical and technical problems that arise at mediations, with key practice points highlighted in Q&A format. Topics include: Impartiality: You arrive at the mediation and suddenly realise that you know one of parties. What do you do? Joint Opening Sessions: One side wants one the other doesn't. What do you do? Bad behaviour: One party is secretly recording the mediation. What do you do? Offers: Neither side will make an offer. They both say they want to hear from the other side first. What do you do? Stages covered: Pre-mediation At the mediation The End of the Mediation and After Each entry includes: The core issues behind the question Case studies of authentic, anonymized, true-life examples The ethical, legal, procedural and commercial issues highlighted and explained in straightforward language Advice on your options: proven tips for immediate use Checklists, sample emails, scripts and templates. Cross-references to cases, protocols, codes of conduct.